Topic: beauty culture

People talk about skin care like it’s fun – like it’s a hobby, a “me time” activity, a way to relax. But for me, the very idea opens onto a black hole of self-loathing. I was 17, sitting on the porch outside my favorite café with some friends, when a man walked up to us […]

On Tuesday Jessica Valenti at the Guardian argued that the French have better sex because of our “American prudishness and male-centric sex.” Can the same be said for Latinos? The Guardian’s feminist columnist Jessica Valenti has to be admired for her chutzpah, even if sometimes her execution is a bit messy. In her column on Tuesday, […]